Range Life and the Onion's Av Club are bringing a week's worth of special engagement screenings to Austin starting on the 14th. All are independent comedies, with the first film, White on Rice, is screening as part of the Austin Asian American Film Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar. With the exception of White on Rice, all films are at 9:30pm at the Dobie. Check out the list below, as three films will include Q&A, and one will be followed by a live band performance.
11/14 2:00pm White On Rice (Screens at Alamo Lamar as part of Aaaff) 11/16 9:30pm Visioneers 11/17 9:30pm On The Road With Judas (Director Q&A included) 11/18 9:30pm Box Elder (Director and Cast Q&A included) 11/19 9:30pm Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong 11/20 9:30pm Assassination of a High School President (followed by a performance by...
11/14 2:00pm White On Rice (Screens at Alamo Lamar as part of Aaaff) 11/16 9:30pm Visioneers 11/17 9:30pm On The Road With Judas (Director Q&A included) 11/18 9:30pm Box Elder (Director and Cast Q&A included) 11/19 9:30pm Last Cup: Road to the World Series of Beer Pong 11/20 9:30pm Assassination of a High School President (followed by a performance by...
- 11/11/2009
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
When one considers what's going on technologically and commercially, he said, there's a real question about whether festivals "are going to be obsolete in a decade, because people won't find them valuable anymore—they won't be the platform from which people need to operate." Above, from a story in the Village Voice by John Anderson pegged to tonight's opening of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, Geoff Gilmore sells the biggest event associated with his new employer by theorizing that it, and all festivals, may be on a long slide towards obsolescence. Coincidentally, earlier this morning I watched the below video by Jj Lask, whose directorial debut On the Road With Judas premiered at Sundance in 2007, toured the country last year on the <a href="../../ ...
- 4/22/2009
- by Karina Longworth
- Spout
Sundance Institute at BAM returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music from May 31-June 10, featuring award-winning feature and short films, live performances and panel discussions.
The series opens with The Savages, Tamara Jenkins' comic drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney and Philip Bosco.
This year's dramatic features include Tom DiCillo's Delirious, Sterlin Harjo's Four Sheets to the Wind, JJ Lask's On the Road With Judas, Christopher Zalla's Padre Nuestro, Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science, David Gordon Green's Snow Angels and Dror Shaul's Sweet Mud.
The series also will highlight musical performances by Ljova, the Blue Jackets with Bradford Reed, Rhythm Republik and Sussan Deyhim. New York-based theater company Mabou Mines will perform selections from "Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting," directed by Ruth Maleczech, which is scheduled for full production in September.
The closing weekend will feature Barbara Kopple's Shut Up & Sing, Raoul Peck's Lumumba and Nick Broomfield's Soldier Girls, followed by a discussion on social issues and documentary filmmaking.
The full program for the Sundance Institute at BAM will be announced in April.
The series opens with The Savages, Tamara Jenkins' comic drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney and Philip Bosco.
This year's dramatic features include Tom DiCillo's Delirious, Sterlin Harjo's Four Sheets to the Wind, JJ Lask's On the Road With Judas, Christopher Zalla's Padre Nuestro, Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science, David Gordon Green's Snow Angels and Dror Shaul's Sweet Mud.
The series also will highlight musical performances by Ljova, the Blue Jackets with Bradford Reed, Rhythm Republik and Sussan Deyhim. New York-based theater company Mabou Mines will perform selections from "Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting," directed by Ruth Maleczech, which is scheduled for full production in September.
The closing weekend will feature Barbara Kopple's Shut Up & Sing, Raoul Peck's Lumumba and Nick Broomfield's Soldier Girls, followed by a discussion on social issues and documentary filmmaking.
The full program for the Sundance Institute at BAM will be announced in April.
- 3/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- On the Road with Judas is one more attack on the notion that films need to have linear stories with main characters and a cathartic ending. Adapting his novel of the same name, director-writer JJ Lask has fashioned a film about the nature of narrative and storytelling, along with other scatological observations about life and art that seemingly popped into his head. Clever and moderately entertaining, film is a puzzle that will find some supporters as surely as it will sharply divide audiences. Controversy could generate some interest on the art house circuit.
The starting point for On the Road with Judas could well have been the ending of Annie Hall where Woody Allen, playing a writer, stages a play in which he winds up with Annie, contrary to how events turned out in the "real-life" of the film. He tells the audience that if he can't get things to go his way in life, at least he can in art.
In Judas, Kevin Corrigan plays a character named JJ Lask who has written a book called On the Road with Judas. The so-called "real" people that the book is based on are played by one set of actors, while the same "fictionalized" characters from the book are played by another set of actors. Sound confusing? It is, intentionally so.
The storyline on its own is pretty straightforward. Judas (Aaron Ruell and Eddie Kaye Thomas) is a computer systems designer by day and, with his best buddy Francis (Alex Burns and Leo Fitzpatrick), a computer thief by night, vandalizing college campus all around New England. Judas meets a girl, Serra (Eleanor Hutchins and Amanda Loncar), falls in love and wants to tell her everything. But in Lask's version nothing is simple.
In full postmodern mode, Judas is more a commentary on a love affair than The Real Thing. Much of the romance is literally played out on the stage of a talk show called "Let's Have Drinks," hosted by Rubin Parker Jr. (played by the real JJ Lask). The real characters, Corrigan as Lask, and even the fictional characters come on the show and dissect what's happening in the book.
Lask seems more concerned with exploring the creative process and how all characters are lies fabricated from some kernel of reality, than he is in the actual love affair. Consequently, one watches more with a sense of detachment, trying to figure out who's who than a rooting interest in these people getting together. Although the performances strike the right earnest but ironic tone, none of the characters -- only the author played by Corrigan -- come off as fully developed people. With the exception of one moving love scene where Judas bears his soul and says he would give up everything for Serra, Lask's way to the heart is clearly through the head.
Keeping all the balls in the air is a first-rate technical feat, aided by Lask's brisk editing (he was an award-winning editor of commercials) with Jason Kileen. Jennifer Dehghan's production design, particularly for the stage of the mock talk show and Judas' basketball-court-sized loft, captures the spacey tone of the material.
Savvy moviegoers may recognize elements of Charlie Kaufman's work, specifically the real-fictional characters of Adaptation, as well the shifting personalities of David Lynch films such as Mulholland Drive. Whether the pieces add up to anything will be a subject for heated debate after the film.
On the Road With Judas
P.S. 260 and All Day Buffet Films
Credits: Directed by JJ Lask; Writer: Lask (based on his novel); Producers: Amy Slotnick, Ronan P. Nagle; Director of Photography: Ben Starkman; Production Designer: Jennifer Dehghan; Music: Human; Costume Designer: Annie U. Yun; Editor: JJ Lask, Jason Kileen.
Cast: Judas, real: Aaron Ruell; JJ Lask: Kevin Corrigan; Judas, actor: Eddie Kaye Thomas; Serra, actor: Eleanor Hutchins; Serra, real: Amanda Loncar; Francis, real: Alex Burns; Francis, actor: Leo Fitzpatrick; Rubin Parker Jr.: JJ Lask.
No MPAA rating, running time: 103 minutes...
The starting point for On the Road with Judas could well have been the ending of Annie Hall where Woody Allen, playing a writer, stages a play in which he winds up with Annie, contrary to how events turned out in the "real-life" of the film. He tells the audience that if he can't get things to go his way in life, at least he can in art.
In Judas, Kevin Corrigan plays a character named JJ Lask who has written a book called On the Road with Judas. The so-called "real" people that the book is based on are played by one set of actors, while the same "fictionalized" characters from the book are played by another set of actors. Sound confusing? It is, intentionally so.
The storyline on its own is pretty straightforward. Judas (Aaron Ruell and Eddie Kaye Thomas) is a computer systems designer by day and, with his best buddy Francis (Alex Burns and Leo Fitzpatrick), a computer thief by night, vandalizing college campus all around New England. Judas meets a girl, Serra (Eleanor Hutchins and Amanda Loncar), falls in love and wants to tell her everything. But in Lask's version nothing is simple.
In full postmodern mode, Judas is more a commentary on a love affair than The Real Thing. Much of the romance is literally played out on the stage of a talk show called "Let's Have Drinks," hosted by Rubin Parker Jr. (played by the real JJ Lask). The real characters, Corrigan as Lask, and even the fictional characters come on the show and dissect what's happening in the book.
Lask seems more concerned with exploring the creative process and how all characters are lies fabricated from some kernel of reality, than he is in the actual love affair. Consequently, one watches more with a sense of detachment, trying to figure out who's who than a rooting interest in these people getting together. Although the performances strike the right earnest but ironic tone, none of the characters -- only the author played by Corrigan -- come off as fully developed people. With the exception of one moving love scene where Judas bears his soul and says he would give up everything for Serra, Lask's way to the heart is clearly through the head.
Keeping all the balls in the air is a first-rate technical feat, aided by Lask's brisk editing (he was an award-winning editor of commercials) with Jason Kileen. Jennifer Dehghan's production design, particularly for the stage of the mock talk show and Judas' basketball-court-sized loft, captures the spacey tone of the material.
Savvy moviegoers may recognize elements of Charlie Kaufman's work, specifically the real-fictional characters of Adaptation, as well the shifting personalities of David Lynch films such as Mulholland Drive. Whether the pieces add up to anything will be a subject for heated debate after the film.
On the Road With Judas
P.S. 260 and All Day Buffet Films
Credits: Directed by JJ Lask; Writer: Lask (based on his novel); Producers: Amy Slotnick, Ronan P. Nagle; Director of Photography: Ben Starkman; Production Designer: Jennifer Dehghan; Music: Human; Costume Designer: Annie U. Yun; Editor: JJ Lask, Jason Kileen.
Cast: Judas, real: Aaron Ruell; JJ Lask: Kevin Corrigan; Judas, actor: Eddie Kaye Thomas; Serra, actor: Eleanor Hutchins; Serra, real: Amanda Loncar; Francis, real: Alex Burns; Francis, actor: Leo Fitzpatrick; Rubin Parker Jr.: JJ Lask.
No MPAA rating, running time: 103 minutes...
- 1/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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